SONG FOR NEW YORK
2007
A site-specific work was performed from a barge moored in the East River with audiences seated on the pier at Gantry State Park in Long Island City. Five female poets wrote the piece, composed of five poems– one poem representing each of the five boroughs that make up New York City.
Song For New York, was developed in part, by the Sundance Institute Theatre Program and at residencies with New York Theatre Workshop (at Vassar College), Voice and Vision Envision Retreat (at Bard College) and UCross Foundation (in clearmont, Wyoming). A “Sing Through” version of Song For New York was presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on 6/4/07 as part of Sundance Institute at BAM.
A Mabou Mines Production
Imelda O’Reilly, Staten Island Song
Maggie Dubris, Manhattan Song
Patricia Spears Jones, Brooklyn Song
Karen Kandel, Queens Song
Migdalia Cruz, Bronx Song
Nancy Groce, Yarns
PRESS
An Affectionate Shout-Out to New York
A song for New York, sung in one borough
Not a dry eye in the house
A performance to loll for
“Mabou Mines Song for New York is an ambitious and at times a soaring love letter to New York City’s complex history. Mostly sung in a combination of whitmanesque poetry and dry journalistic detail, the piece aims to create an epic as grand as the city itself. ”
“Song for New York... nothing I have observed can compare for ingenuity with the new site-specific piece of the experimental Mabou Mines company. ”
